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Combes, TX

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Overview


Combes is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 3,166 people and just one neighborhood, Combes is the 521st largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Combes is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Combes is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Combes who work in sales jobs (18.90%), office and administrative support (11.18%), and healthcare suport services (7.14%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.77% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Combes is worth considering.

As is often the case in a small town, Combes doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Combes with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.71% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Combes in 2018 was $20,892, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $83,568 for a family of four. However, Combes contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Combes is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Combes home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Combes, accounting for 82.68% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Combes residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Combes include English, German, Scandinavian, Irish, and Scottish.

In addition, Combes has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (19.39%).

The most common language spoken in Combes is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 56.9% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 68.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry and 1.4% have Swiss ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Vietnamese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Combes are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 30.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (24.9%), and 19.8% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 65.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Combes, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (68.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report German roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.0%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.2%), among others. In addition, 12.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (8.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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